CONTENTS. 



nier, that M^n was the moft miferable of all Animals. — Qusftlon, Whether he be 

 lefs miferable now, when he has To much more money, than in the days of Homer ? 

 — God has afli4ned for every Animal an oeconomy and manner of life, that gives 

 him all the happinefs his nature is capable of. — Man, therefore, in his natural ftate, 

 is as happy as other Animals in that ftate — The Queftion then is, Whether Money 

 has made him happier in the Civilifed Stue ? — The enjoyment of Money produces 

 as much evil as the acqu:fition of it. — Wealth produces Luxury and Vanity, and af- 

 fords many temptations, that are not to be refifted by a weak intelledl, fuch as that 

 of Man. — Of the divifion of Men, introduced by Wealth, into thofe who live in 

 Vanity and Luxury, and thofe who minifter to that Vanity and Luxury. — The effeft 

 of Wealth upon the Rich, is to make them more difeafed and more miferable — and 

 upon the Poor, to make them ftill poorer. — This paradox explained, by fhowing 

 that Wealth raifes the price of the neccfTaries of life, and prompts the Poor to imi- 

 tate the Luxury and Vanity of the Rich. — The drii^king of Tea an example of this. 

 — Of the poverty of Manufacturers though their wages be high. — The Poor's rate 

 of England increafes with the wealth of a Nation. — Wealth makes the Rich poor — 

 and confequently avaritious. — The confequence of Luxury and Avarice being joined 

 together in the great Men of a State — The conlpiracy of Cataline, a remarkable in- 

 ftance of that. — Of the effects of Wealth in England — more confpicuous than in any 

 Country in England, as the Wealth is greater. — More Crimes, more Vices, and 

 more Indigence, in England, than in any other Country. — Thefe produce a Colony 

 of Convidts to Botany Bay. — A particular account of that Colony given. — Indigence 

 the fource of almofl all the Crimes in England. — The diftin^ion of the Luxurious 

 and Indolent, and of thofe that minillered to their Luxury and Indolence, not known 

 among the Greeks in the Heroic age. — A particular account of their domeftic oeco- 

 nomy. — The fame was the cafe among the Romans in the earlv ages of their State. 

 — Men, in thefe early ages, being nearer the natural ftate, lived in a more naf ral 

 way, and therefore were happier than in later times. — In the n-^xt Book an inq'i-ry. 

 Whether lome means might not be contrived to alleviate thefe mifchiefs of Civi' So- 

 ciety, p. 70. 



BOOK III. 



Of the Advantages Derived from Civil Society, and how its Ills may 



be Alleviated. 



CHAP. I. 



Reafon why Man in the Natural State is happier than in the Civilifed. — Li the firft he 

 is governed by lnftin6t.-«-in the lad by his own inteiligei.ee. — Hia wants and defircs 



b 2 few 



